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| Hiking | 12.00 Miles |
2,558 AEG |
| | Hiking | 12.00 Miles | 5 Hrs 33 Mns | | 2.20 mph |
| 2,558 ft AEG | 6 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | It had been a few years since I was out at Skyline RP, so I figured it was time. Started from the main parking lot and hiked west on the Turnbuckle Trail to Granite Falls Trail. Along Granite Falls somewhere I got off the trail an onto one of the service roads, but it doesn’t really look all that different from the trails in this park since they’re all so wide and possibly former mining roads.
Got back on Granite Falls and took the Pyrite Trail up to the Pyrite Summit, then headed down and onto Chuckwalla. Then I took Granite Fall again, but uphill to Valley Vista and hiked that to the summit there. It’s pretty windy along Valley Vista, enough that I needed to put my hood up just to keep my hat on my head. Early on along Valley Vista is what looked like a new trail, but it’s on older maps, so it’s probably another mining road. Looks like it just dead ends below, so if you walk it, you’ll like hike walk back up, which looks like pretty good climb.
After Valley Vista I took Lost Creek over to Quartz Mine and looped back to the parking lot on the Parking Lot Connector Trail. Saw almost no one on Pyrite or Chuckwalla, but from Lost Creek onward the traffic picked up. Mostly hikers, not many bikers. Weather was clear and sunny the entire time. Chilly to start but warmed up quickly. It’s a long drive out from Mesa, which is why I don’t get out here much. The drive out isn’t bad since there isn’t much traffic, but I-10 on the way back is touch and go with a lot of slow spots. |
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